Scoil: Ballyroan (Convent) (uimhir rolla 1556)
- Suíomh:
- Baile Átha an Róine, Co. Laoise
- Múinteoir: Mother Philomena
Sonraí oscailte
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)however that he may have been identical with the celebrated St. Foilan, Abbot of Scotland.
The graveyard of Kilwhelan occupies an elevated position and is surrounded by a nearly circular fosse, which was formerly entered by an old road. It is some little distance from the former mail coach road between Dublin and Cork. The passage of funeral processions to the cemetery leads along a headland of the adjacent field to the boreen.
A few headstones are to be seen, and the inscriptions on them are quite legible.
The Earl of Essex's army passed near Kilwhelan after the celebrated engagement in 1599 at the "Pass of the Plumes".